Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Summerfield: Why It Happens
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? Then set this page aside for now, keep the ignition and engine off, and ring 0333 366 0103. Caught before the motor runs, it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is around Summerfield. The rest of this page explains why it occurs and how to ensure it doesn't — handy if you are reading before it has happened.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
No single fluid but two: that's how plenty of newer diesels around Summerfield and Broomfield run, with diesel feeding your engine. The exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue ends up: sprayed into the gas to fresh them, from a separate tank.
Separate tanks, separate fillers. Some motors keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; a lot of others place both side by side behind one flap. Diesel gets filled at every forecourt call-out, again and again. Rarely topped up, AdBlue normally goes in from a bottle, tipped by someone who has to stop and think what cap to use. Mistakes happen in that gap between the two.
Summerfield: how AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a message from the car, and running dry means limp mode — so a rushed top-up, perhaps before work off Lawson Road, perhaps outside The Itchy Pig on the way home after work.
Then, your hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old vehicle — since a rental car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't.
Third, the bottle fits: diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it goes in as readily, and once the tip begins, nothing halts it. Whether it takes place in Broomhill or the middle of Summerfield, it is the same few seconds.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
A couple of seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you pour anything, on a drive in Endcliffe Edge or a forecourt in Summerfield.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap normally is not. Read it rather than going by where it sits.
- Plenty of cars fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Many motors say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook says where it lives if your filler isn't next to the diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- The previous driver will know. Check as you pick up a rental or fleet car — at Sheffield's car park, perhaps — not when the light appears.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
On the day the light comes on — wherever you are around South Yorkshire — a simple routine to use.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with your motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Manchester Road.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after finding the AdBlue filler and reading it. Silly, perhaps, yet it does the trick.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the car.
Discover at the second or third step that AdBlue went into the diesel tank? That is where you stop. Step five is off limits.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Summerfield?
What follows is a short order of things, beginning with no starting the engine. The fuel pump starts on many diesels the moment your ignition goes on — and so leave it off. Diluting it with extra diesel won't work, because AdBlue sinks to the bottom rather than blending — and that's where the fuel is sucked from.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it's the Shell or the JET, ask the staff to help push your car clear of the petrol pump. On your own drive in Summerfield? So the vehicle stays put.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if the engine has already run. The next exit means the place to leave if you are on the Tinsley Viaduct, under 5 miles from Summerfield. Roughly how far did it go? Hopping across Summerfield is less work than a trip of under 3 miles towards Sheffield, so tell us.
When our technicians arrive in Summerfield, what occurs?
Wherever the vehicle came to rest, be it outside Broomhill Infant School, beside Broomhill Methodist Church or at home, the van comes to it. The answers decide this work and the quote, and so we ask what went in, roughly how much, and if it's run. That quote is given over the phone, before any van leaves.
Emptying that tank comes next, followed by a thorough flush of the system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own — which is why that counts more with AdBlue than with petrol. The filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. We do not leave until it has been fired up and is running smoothly.
Unstarted cars mostly need a half-hour job from the moment we arrive. The equipment is fine on a live filling station, and quiet enough for a residential street after dark. Payment is on the day, not upfront, and you are given the paperwork an insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. It is worth looking at your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Summerfield and where it is
Summerfield is a suburban area located on the outskirts of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, sitting at an elevation of 173 metres. Summerfield is characterized by its predominantly terraced housing stock, reflecting the area's historical development. Summerfield is close to nearby places such as Broomhill and Tapton Hill, and is situated approximately 1.5 miles from Sheffield city centre. Summerfield has a population of around 11120 residents.
AdBlue drains round Summerfield, and South Yorkshire beyond
Over S postcodes, our teams covering Summerfield — a residential suburb — work the nearby spots too, Tapton Hill and Endcliffe Crescent among them. Fastest of all: quote a S10 3 postcode to our van.
The vehicle does not need to move. Anywhere it sits — near Broomhill Climbing Works, in a lay-by heading to Sheffield Botanical Gardens, at home — that's where it gets emptied. Guessing doesn't help at the back of Broomhill Community Library, close to a border, or anywhere awkward to describe; ring and check.
Summerfield drivers: the short version
Pour nothing until you've read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same, leave the car off then ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it waits, anywhere across South Yorkshire.